by Mim E. Rivas
BJK’s appearance at, 1, 4, 6–10, 231–34, 240
opening day of, 1–10, 230–31
Pike amusement area of, 1–4, 5–6, 216–19, 231–32, 267
Louisiana State Fair, 192–93
Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N), 101, 229
Lucas, Sam, 226
Luke Blackburn, 28
Lykens, W. L., 149
lynchings, 21, 205, 265–66
McCarthy, Cormac, ix
McCarthy, Mayor, 112, 115
McClain, Henry, 83
McClain, Nancy Key, 48, 53, 56, 83, 84
McGill, W. J., 264
McKinley, Ida, 107, 108, 109–11, 113, 195
McKinley, William, 98, 106–16, 126, 137, 155
assassination of, 4, 195–96
BJK’s performance for, 112–16, 178
Madame Tonson, 27
Madison Square Garden, 47, 87, 132
Magner, D., 166
Magner’s Art of Taming and Educating Horses (Magner), 166
Malone, Thomas, 141
Man O’War, xiii
Mascot and Barney (Maguire Educated Horses), 220
Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association, 212
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (MSPCA), 159, 160, 197, 199, 202, 212, 250, 252–53, 254
Master St. Elmo: The Autobiography of a Celebrated Dog (Senour), 234
medicine shows, 19–20, 60–63, 64, 85, 217, 221
“Meet Me in St. Louis,” 2, 215
Meharry Medical College, 182
Men, Beasts, and Gods: A History of Cruelty and Kindness to Animals (Carson), 125
Messenger, 29–30
Metropolitan Cash Register, 227
Michton, Morris, 7
Middle Tennessee State University, 269
Minneapolis Journal, 244–45
Minoliti, Giorgio, 199
minstrel shows, 19, 20, 21, 225
Minter, Jeptha, 53–54, 55, 56
Minter, J. M., 82
Mohammed (prophet), 22, 23
Monk (dog), 6, 174–75, 189, 192–93, 204, 207, 211, 212, 213, 224, 228, 236, 240, 246, 247, 249, 255–56, 258, 263, 268
“monkey trials,” 223
Monsieur Tonson, 27
Morgan, John Hunt, 75
Morgan, J. P., 195
Morocco, 222
Morrison, Allan, 214
Muggins, 31–32
Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railways (NC & St. L), 16, 101
Nashville, Tenn., 17, 27–28, 49, 50, 52, 77, 82, 93, 98–116, 181–85
Nashville American, 183, 185
Nashville Banner, 185
Nashville Humane Society, 181–84
Nashville Sun, 116, 185
Nashville Tennessean, 264
Nashville World’s Fair, see Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition of 1897
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (N.A.A.C.P.), 266
National Association of Trotting-Horse Breeders, 28
National Cash Register (NCR), 134, 139, 191, 227–28, 231–32, 238
National Education Association, 233
National Negro Business League, 203–4
Native Americans, 3, 151, 228
Negley, James Scott, 77
Nevada, 28
Newark Daily Advertiser, 131
Newark Evening News, 131, 133, 139
New Jersey School for Deaf-Mutes, 141
New Orleans, La., 8, 192–93
New York, N.Y., 15–16, 37, 47, 87–89, 90–92, 152–55
American Museum in, 87, 88–89, 154
animals in, 152–53
BJK’s debut in, 121–23
Central Park in, 152
Field’s Stables in, xiii–xiv, 87, 121–22, 126, 163, 173
Grand Central Palace in, 254
race riots in, 204–5
Star Theatre in, 165, 196–97
New York Herald, 122, 126, 264
New York Journal, 87, 122
New York Mail and Express, 149
New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 155
New York Sun, 122, 126
New York Times, xiii–xiv, 163–64, 254–55
New York World, 88, 122, 131, 227
New York World’s Fair of 1964–65, 215
Northern Pacific Railroad, 195
Nugent, E. J., 156–57
Ochs, Adolph, 163, 256
Offutt, Denton, 46–47
O’Hearn, Jay, 244
Ohio Humane Society, 128, 157, 158
Old Plantation exhibit, 51, 92–93, 104, 106, 118
Olympic Games, 219
Omaha World Herald, 244
Orange Chronicle, 136, 137, 139, 144
Orange Driving and Riding Club, 133–34, 140
Orange Journal, 138
Oren, Leslie, 245–46
Our Dumb Animals, 162, 202
Palmer, John M., 65
Palmer, T. W., 224
Pan American World’s Fair of 1901, 194–95, 200
Parent American Band of Mercy, 198, 199, 202
Paris World’s Fair, 219
Parker, Lew, 193
Parker, Marilyn Wade, 271
patent medicines, 19–20, 60–62, 91, 97, 118, 127, 167, 168
Payton, Corse, 217
Peek, Myrtie, 139
Persia, 15, 23
Petyona, 27
Pfungst, Oskar, 221
Philadelphia, Pa., 109, 186–89
Philadelphia Inquirer, 188
Philadelphia World’s Fair of 1876, 109, 230
Philis, 23
Piedmont Tobacco Fair, 179
Pillow, Gideon J., 69
Pirates of Penzance, The (Gilbert and Sullivan), 132–33
Pittsburg Commercial Gazette, 145
Pittsburg Exposition, see West Pennsylvania Exposition Society
Pittsburgh Landing, Battle of, 73–74
Pittsburg Press, 185
Pond, J. P., 132–33, 140–41
Poplin, Dick, 269–70
Poplin, W. A. J., 269
Prather, Allen, 77
Presley, Elvis, 184
Pulitzer, Joseph, 227
Queen Key, 255
rabbit’s feet, 54, 61, 95–97, 112, 146, 164
racism, 20, 21, 46, 84, 99, 103–4, 151, 177–78, 204–5, 265–66, 268
ragtime, 226–27
Randall, Jack, 23–24
Ranus, 23
Rarey (horse whisperer), 46
Reconstruction era, 81, 84, 102
Republican Party, 6, 45, 81, 98, 107, 115–16
Revere, Paul, 166
Rhodes Scholars, 33
Roberts, Monty, 46
Robinson-McGill Mfg. Co., 191
Rogers, Albert Reynolds, 6, 15–26, 29, 32–35, 37, 87–93, 110–11
birth of, 90
character and personality of, 17, 18, 90–91
charitable and humane causes of, 91–92, 117, 130, 157–59, 162–65, 189, 198
family background of, 89–90
illnesses of, 178–79, 260
marriage and family of, 59, 91, 135, 157, 230, 248, 251
partnership of WK and, 117–23, 126–37, 140–47, 150–51, 156–59, 162–65, 167–79, 191–98, 202, 206–12, 218–20, 223–24, 231–55, 261
physical appearance of, 17, 120
promotion of entertainment by, 15–18, 51, 87–89, 90, 91, 92–93, 104–6, 116–18, 207–8, 247, 248
purchase of BJK by, 117–21, 260
story of BJK and WK related to, 41–45, 47–58, 59–64, 68–71, 76–80, 82–86, 93–97
wealth of, 260–61
Rogers, Alice, 135, 136
Rogers, Archibald A., 59, 91, 135, 145, 157, 230, 248, 260–62, 268–69
Rogers, Clara Bloss, 59, 91, 135, 157, 230, 248, 251
Rogers, Clarence, 59, 91, 135, 157, 230, 248, 255, 260
Rogers, Cordelia, 89
Rogers, Grace, 135, 136
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Rogers, Hiram, 89
Rogers, Hiram Draper, 89, 90–91, 125–26, 135, 136, 157, 172–73, 248
Rogers, L. R., 157
Rogers, Mercy Adelia Reynolds, 89–90, 91, 125–26, 135, 136, 248
Rogers, Newell, 59, 91, 135, 157, 230, 248, 260, 261
Rogers, Stella, 135, 136
Rogers, Will, 235
Rogers Manifold and Carbon Paper Company, 90–91
Roosevelt, Alice, 1–3, 4–10, 231, 233
Roosevelt, Alice Lee, 5, 9
Roosevelt, Theodore, 2, 4–8, 9, 196, 200, 230
Rosecrans, William, 75, 78
Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), 153, 161, 171, 253
Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, 147
Ryal, Johnson, 117
Ryman, Thomas, 181–82, 184
Rysdyk, William, 29, 30, 32, 192
Sanders, Lewis, 27
San Francisco Call, 5
San Francisco earthquake of 1906, 218
Santa Fe Railroad, 239
Saunders, Margaret Marshall, 162
Scholar and a Model Office Boy, The (Rogers and Key), 128, 129–30, 134, 142, 147–50, 157, 169, 175, 177, 189, 196–97, 219
Seabiscuit, xiii
Secretariat, xiii
Secret Service, 195
Senour, Caro, 234
Seton, Thompson, 132
Sewell, Anna, 127–28, 161
Sewell, Samuel E., 160
Shakespeare, William, 216–17, 222, 243
Sheehan, Ida, 92, 96
Shelbyville, Tenn., xiii, 6, 16–17, 20, 27, 29, 31, 33–35, 47–48, 50, 54–57, 66–67, 77–85, 97, 106, 150, 156, 189–91, 204, 260–64
Bedford County Courthouse in, 263, 265–66, 267, 271
Confederate and Union occupations of, 72–73, 78–80
as “Little Boston,” 72, 73, 75
Opera House of, 157, 189
Willow Mount Cemetery in, 257, 262
Shelbyville Gazette, 31–32, 100–101, 117, 256–57, 259, 260, 264
Shelbyville Times-Gazette, 269
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 80
Sherman brothers, 215
Shiloh, Battle of, 73–74, 75
Shoot the Chutes, 92, 104, 105, 208
Shouse, Louis W., 243
Sixth Indiana Regiment, 76
“Sketch of Dr. Wm. Key’s Life” (Rogers), 49
slave drivers, 52, 53, 79
slaves, 118, 223
class distinction among, 53
education of, 49–50
emancipation of, 21, 65, 67, 68, 75, 80, 153
freed, 67, 84
fugitive, 54–55, 69, 72
living and working conditions of, 55
opposition to owning of, 50, 51, 56–57, 66, 88, 160
Snowden family, 225
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), 153, 154
Sousa, John Philip, 2, 143–44, 226–27, 233, 235, 240, 244
South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition, 206–9
Southern Railway, 56
spiritualism, 96, 217
State Convention of the Colored People of Tennessee (1865), 20
states’ rights, 66
Sterling, James, 50
St. Louis Dispatch, 226–27, 230–31
St. Louis World’s Fair, see Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904
stock market collapse of 1901, 195
Stones River, Battle of, 74–75
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 127–28
Street Railway Journal, 207
Stud: Adventures in Breeding (Conley), 37
Sullivan, Arthur, 132–33
Supreme Court, U.S., 2
Syracuse Post Standard, 213
Taft, William H., 233
Taylor, Robert L., 108, 115
Teddy bears, 7
Tennessee, xiii, 6, 16–17, 20
Bedford County in, 27, 31–34, 47, 54, 57, 65, 67–68, 71, 76, 82–83, 97–99, 156, 174, 189–90, 228–29, 270–71
Civil War in, 65–80, 102
divided loyalties during Civil War in, 51, 65–69, 72–73, 75–76, 80, 81
famous horses bred in, 27–28, 32–34
secession of, 57, 68, 80
slavery in, 47–58, 80
statehood of, 51, 99
Sumner County in, 65
three district geographic regions of, 50–51, 65, 68
Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition of 1897, 16, 93, 98–118, 126, 260, 261
exhibits and amusements at, 102–6, 111–16, 117–18
McKinley’s visit to, 106–16
Negro Building at, 102–4, 106–7, 111–16, 117–18
Official History of, 106, 107, 108, 110, 111
Opening Day of, 104, 107
performances of BJK at, 93, 112–18, 127, 131, 185, 269
planning of, 98–100, 101–4, 107
WK as an official at, 101–4, 106, 112
Tennessee National Guard, 265–66
Tennessee Oscar, 27
Tennessee Volunteer, 32–33, 113, 190
Tennessee Walking Horse, 32, 97, 190–91
Tennessee Walking Horse Celebration, 97, 259, 264
Thomas, Charles, 130–31
Thomas, John W., 101–2
Thompson, Sam, 31
Tillman, Lewis, 67, 81
Time, 223
Tomkins, W. L., 131
Travis, Hattie McCall, 3
Trenton Interstate Fair, 131, 140, 141
Trenton Sunday Advertiser, 141, 142
Trousdale, Camp, 65
Truman, Harry S., 266
Tubman, Harriet, 54–55
Tupelo, Miss., 21–22, 25
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, 111, 203–4
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 127–28, 161
staged versions of, 128, 219, 225–26
Underground Railroad, 54–55, 69
Union Army, 66–69
colored troops in, 75–76
troops called up by, 66, 68, 69, 72, 74, 75–76, 107
WK’s service in, 69, 73
United States Trotters Association, 28
Vanderbilt University, 109–10, 181, 267
vegetarianism, 155
Volunteer (55), 33
von Osten, Wilhelm, 220–21, 223
Walker, Alice, 248
Wallace, John H., 29, 30, 33
Wallace’s Monthly, 29
Wallace’s Year Book, 29, 30, 33
Walton, Frederick M., 170
War of 1812, 48
Washington, Booker T., 7–8, 103, 111, 196, 203–4, 209, 233
Waverly Park Fair, 131, 133
Webb, Benjamin F., 65, 69
Webb, William R., 33
Webb School, 33, 267
Webster, Daniel, 162
West Pennsylvania Exposition Society, 142–46, 149, 176–77, 185
West Pennsylvania Humane Society, 185
White House, 8, 10, 107, 108, 196, 230
Whiteside, Sally, 31
Whitman, Annie Mott, 269
Whitman, David, 269
Williams, Allen, 132
Williams, Bert, 205, 226
Wisener, William H., 56–57, 66–67, 72, 79–80, 81
Womack, Bob, 59, 269, 270
Women’s Christian Temperance Union, 205–6
women’s movement, 230
Women’s Pennsylvania Humane Society, 264
Women’s Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 185–86
women’s suffrage, xv, 230
Woodhouse, James T., 125, 126
World Columbian Exposition of 1893, 98–99, 100, 101, 109, 194, 212, 215, 219, 224
World War I, 261, 266
World War II, 260
Wright Brothers, 3
Xenophon, 28–29
yellow journalism, 87, 163
About the Author
MIM EICHLER RIVAS has worked as an author, coauthor, and ghostwriter on more than tw
elve nonfiction books, including the New York Times bestseller Finding Fish. She lives with her family in Hermosa Beach, California.
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PRAISE FOR BEAUTIFUL
JIM KEY
“A classic…. Beautiful Jim Key is a window into a lost world.”
—Nashville Scene
“A captivating literary excavation of lost Americana.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Beautiful Jim Key may be the biggest celebrity you’ve never heard of—until now.”
—Winston-Salem Journal
“A wonderful true story of an extraordinary horse and an equally extraordinary man.”
—Berry Gordy
“Rivas performs an important service by bringing this story to light and reminding us how it was almost lost.”
—Knoxville News-Sentinel
“A wonderful slice of American life at the turn of the last century…. Rivas deserves praise.”
—Contra Costa Times
“Like Laura Hillenbrand’s Seabiscuit, this brilliantly re-created history of Beautiful Jim Key is destined to become a classic.”
—David Geffen
“For years, many thought the story of Beautiful Jim Key and his trainer, Dr. William Key, was a tall tale…. Rivas weaves these stories of horse and trainer together while placing them in the context of their times, as Laura Hillenbrand did in Seabiscuit, offering a narrative that is even more exciting than a tall tale because every word is true.”
—St. Petersburg Times
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